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Progress reports will go home on Wednesday and are due back signed on Monday.

Class geographic bees will be held this week.

Students are to be working on their state report and recitation for November.

Academics:

In Spalding, we will enter list 13 and be tested on list 12. We will review rule 18.

In language/writing, we will learn about hyphens, helping verbs, suffixes, gerunds, infinitives, and similes. We will complete grammar lessons 41-43. We will finish our informative analysis of Lou Gehrig. Students are learning to synthesize information from two different sources and form generalizations based on the information presented. They will write a factual analysis of the life of Lou Gehrig based on the texts, citing and referencing sources when appropriate.

In reading, we will finish our study of the types of texts. There will be a study guide Monday for the test on Tuesday. We will continue with our book study.

In math, students will receive a study guide Monday for the test on Tuesday. We will complete lessons 42-44 on rounding, adding and subtracting decimal numbers, and multiplying two digit numbers.

In science, we will finish our study of soil and resource conservation. There will be a study guide Tuesday for the test on Thursday. We will begin our study of ecosystem changes.

In social studies, we will have a geographic bee. We will read unit 1 lesson 3 pages 26-31.